Ergebnis für "Spiral" in Krimis & Thriller

The galaxy is vast, and worship of the God-Emperor by His faithful takes many forms. The Spiral Dawn is one of the countless sanctioned sects of the Imperial Cult. As a gathering of Spiralytes make their holy pilgrimage to Redemption, the sect's world of origin and a shrine world of the Imperium, they find not a haven of enlightenment and introspection, but a soot-choked hellhole where their order's founders and an unorthodox regiment of Astra Militarum maintain an uneasy coexistence.

The race is on to stop the devastating proliferation of the ultimate bioweapon: a drug-resistant fungal infection. “A fascinating ride through a world of bioweaponry, nanoscience, murder, and international intrigue . . . one of the best debut thrillers I’ve read in a long time...

Green—named after the color of car he's driving—awakens on the side of a dark highway surrounded by dense forest. And he's in an old muscle car with no way to tell time, no cell phone, and the radio doesn’t work. When he encounters others like himself, they have to join forces to unravel the mystery surrounding them. Yet, trust doesn't come easily—someone amongst them is a saboteur. With their lives at stake, they are compelled to engage in a race where being last means certain death. They must disentangle the truth that threatens to consume them, before they spiral out of control.

A deadly, unstable shooter. A trap Malcolm and Seong-Jae can't escape. And more than one life on the line as they find themselves facing down one of the Golden Ratio Killer's proxies in a high-stakes hostage situation that could ramp up the serial murderer's mathematical body counts exponentially. And if Malcolm and Seong-Jae aren't careful, they'll be among the tally.

Only Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, can imagine the horror of a good and angry man who fights back against bureaucracy when it threatens to destroy his vitality, home, and memories. “Under any name King mesmerizes the reader” (Chicago Sun-Times). It’s all coming to an end for...

Roms Villenviertel wird von einer Serie dreister Einbrüche heimgesucht. Als einer davon gefährlich eskaliert, gelingt es Commissario Maurizio Ferro mit seinen unkonventionellen, beherzten Methoden gerade noch rechtzeitig Schlimmeres zu verhindern. Ferro hält den Fall für erledigt, aber schon kurz darauf geschehen ähnliche Verbrechen.

It wasn’t that John couldn’t tell the story. It wasn’t that we didn’t know the truth. It was that nobody would believe us. But we cannot keep Sherlock alive with silence.

A riveting account of one inmate’s quest to die on death row—and a fearless look at a system of punishment that has failed the public it claims to serve. When Scott Dozier was sent to Nevada’s death row in 2007, convicted of a pair of grisly murders, he didn’t cry foul or embark upon a...

Fire kvinder samles til krebsegilde. De mødte hinanden i slutningen af 1990'erne, da de sang i det samme kor. Derefter tog livet dem i forskellige retninger, men hvert år i august mødes de. Det bliver endnu våd aften med krebs, snaps og vin, men da det bliver morgen, vågner kun to kvinder op i det gamle hus. Kriminalassistent Anna Glad har taget orlov for at passe sin søn, mens hendes mand Tomas arbejder i døgndrift. Og det går hurtigt op for hende, at alle fire kvinder til krebsegildet havde noget at skjule.

Every choice leaves a ghost. Every silence, a scar. Across fractured timelines where forgotten prophecies echo and names unspoken wield power, three wanderers are called by a signal that doesn’t belong to any world still standing. Hunted by reality’s architects and haunted by selves they never became, they traverse collapsing bridges of memory, carnivals of regret, and oceans inked with unspoken legacies. But something ancient has stirred in the spirals of fate—an echo born of mercy and defiance, threatening to rewrite not just the future, but the cost of remembering it.

Mass violence committed by young people is now an epidemic. The reasons behind this escalating violence and the cultural forces that have impugned a generation is the subject of this important new book. The Spiral Notebook is full of interviews with Generation Z, a group dogged by big pharma and antidepressants and ADHD drugs, by a doomsday/apocalyptic mentality present since birth, and by an entertainment industry that has turned violence into parlor games.

After years of being presumed dead, Palestine’s most feared terrorist emerges from hiding with a plan for utter domination of the Middle East: the Shaitan Commandment. With a quartet of the region’s deadliest soldiers, he puts into motion a scheme that spells doom for the Western world. His target is not Israel, but Israel’s protector: the United States. On their trail is Alabaster, an Israeli special-forces agent whose true identity is buried under so many layers of deception that not even the Mossad knows who he really is. But every terrorist has heard of him, and knows to be afraid.

Called to a bizarre scene at a demolition site, the chaotic Parisian cop is confronted with a trio of stolen ancient coffins carefully arranged around a condemned building. However, it is only the beginning of the case, when upon future examination, Coco and her team discover an altogether more recent corpse.

Over to dramatiske døgn oplever København to mord. En hjemløs' lig bliver fundet i Ørstedsparken, og der er tale om et mord. Endnu et lig af en ung kvinde findes dagen efter druknet på Christiania. Er der tale om mord eller selvmord? Da begge sager lander hos en kontroversiel kriminalkommisær Bjergmark, spændes der hurtigt ben for opklaringen af de to sager. Mens han forsøger at opklare, om der findes en sammenhæng, komplicerer endnu et mord og en kidnapning yderligere situationen. Snart bliver sagen politisk, PET og Europol indblandes. Midt i det hele står Bjergmark, for hvem sagen bliver mer

Two sisters battle demons from their EMS careers that have affected their personal lives.

The long-awaited literary return of the author of the critically acclaimed cult classic Apathy and Other Small Victories: a darkly comic novel, set in the near future, about the race to find a missing cyber program with the power to bend reality, all before a fast-approaching comet destroys the...

I should have known I could never run fast enough to stay free of my family's clutches. Now I'm back under my mother's thumb, being prepped as the heir to her mafia throne...and for other plans so shady that she's keeping them secret.

When 15-year-old Nathaniel Braddick discovers a cold storage wallet with over two billion dollars of Bitcoin, he embarks on a path of revenge against the Black Ghost, who killed his parents when he was a child. His deadly plot sets off a turbulent spiral of mayhem, threatening to destroy all caught in its path.

Danske Vicki Salling og hendes franske samlever, Luc Legrand, har slået sig ned i Paris, hvor de skal opbygge og sikre en stærk og solid europæisk platform for Lucs nye arbejdsgiver, Indian Gem Stones. Inderne satser på et joint-venture i det østlige Zimbabwe, der har verdens største diamantforekomster, og Luc får til opgave på rekordtid at få søsat projektet.

Private investigator Mitchell King is involved with two difficult cases. He fights to shield a female astronaut from a sexual harassment when he's asked to persuade the stalker to quit. Mitch then becomes personally involved with the sexy murder witness whom he's hired to protect. The investigations take Mitch from the refined engineering of space exploration to the squalor of biker bars and heroin shooting galleries. As he obsesses over his clients, Mitch stubbornly refuses to face his own shortcomings.